CommunityData:Workshop

Spring 2026 workshops are on Fridays at 11:30am PT / 1:30pm CT / 2:30pm ET. Please circulate/share your work no less than 5 days in advance of your slot.

Summer 2026 workshops are on Wednesday at 11:30am PT / 1:30pm CT / 2:30pm ET. Please circulate/share your work no less than 5 days in advance of your slot.

The CDSC workshop provides a weekly venue to present/share work, to hear talks from outsiders, to discuss papers togther, or to have substantive conversations about research.

People presenting or sharing work will bring a range of materials to the workshops: planning documents, draft papers, manuscripts with reviews, grant applications, job-market materials, practice talks, brainstorming potential projects, etc.

As we build this schedule, don't forget to check each campus's holiday schedule. Also, semester/quarter breaks can diverge.

The workshop rules norms are:

1. Although we understand that people will sometimes have conflicts with one of the workshop (and that's OK), everyone in the group is expected to attend every workshop session.
2. Everyone is also expected to present/share in the workshop regularly. Given the size of the group that means a couple times each year.
3. If people are expected to read something in advance, presenters should circulate the work 5 days prior to their workshop slot.
4. Every person attending is expected to participate actively and provide feedback to the person who has shared work. It can be something small and superficial. This norm is relaxed if the material came very late so that it was not possible for you to have read things before the meeting.
5. Faculty do not speak until every nonfaculty member has spoken. That might mean you don't hear from faculty, in which case their feedback will come in writing in the notes or over email/Matrix.

Spring 2026

• Apr 3 — [skipped]
• Apr 10 — Zarine: epistemic infrastructure paper
• Apr 17 — [skipped]
• Apr 24 — Alanna: First case study on EEG reproducibility
• May 1 — dylan: arbcom paper?

• May 8 — Emma: social sim
• May 15 — dionna: new project proposal/outline
• May 22 — matt: SLR pre-submission draft
• May 29 — theia: Social.Wiki & Graffiti
• Jun 5 — Galen Weld: Improving Online Community Governance across Thousands of Communities
• Jun 12 — Manish: Everyday Politics on Instagram and Positioning

Summer 2026

• Jun 24 — [open]
• Jul 1 — [open]
• Jul 8 — [open]
• Jul 15 — [open]
• Jul 22 — [open]
• Jul 29 — [open]
• Aug 5 — [open]
• Aug 12 — [open]
• Aug 19 — [open]
• Aug 26 — [open]
• Sep 2 — [open]
• Sep 9 — [open]

Past workshops

For past workshop schedules, see the workshop archive.

Generating the next season's skeleton

Each workshop slot is a {{workshop-slot}} template invocation. To start a new season/quarter, paste the following into a shell (adjust d to the start date, e to the end date, and w to the three-letter day abbreviation). The output is a sequence of empty {{workshop-slot|...}} blocks ready to paste into the page.

d=2026-04-01 e=2026-06-12 w=Fri
while [[ "$d" < "$e" || "$d" == "$e" ]]; do
  [[ $(date +%a -d "$d") == "$w" ]] && printf '{{workshop-slot\n| date   = %s\n| skip   = no\n| topic  = \n| person = \n| email  = \n}}\n' "$d"
  d=$(date -I -d "$d+1day")
done